[CIVIL WAR]. A collection of 85 stereoviews from "The War for the Union" series. E. & H.T. Anthony, New York.

85 stereoviews on cardstock mounts, majority with Anthony's "The War for the Union" series title on mount recto. Four views are published by Selden & Co., Quinby & Co., and Olden, Sawyer & Co. Most versos with applied paper label listing image number, title, and occasional credit to the photographer. Some examples are hand colored. Two stereoviews are affixed to larger cardstock mounts.

Content includes camp life, battlefields, forts, ships, artillery, landmarks, ceremonies such as the Grand Review, and more.

Highlighted titles include: Woods on the left wing, Battle of Gettysburgh; in the middle ground a dead soldier. The "dead" soldier is reportedly Mathew Brady's photography assistant. -- Head quarters of Dr. Grant and Dwight, of French's Brigade, Yorktown, Va. -- Libby Prison, Richmond, Va. -- Panoramic View of Richmond, Va., from Libby Hill, looking west. In the distance Pontoon Bridge and Belle Island, the place where so many Union prisoners were confined. -- Breastworks on the left wing, Battle of Gettysburgh. -- Falls Church, Va. -- Bull Run Battlefield, Va. -- Signal Corps, Cobb's Hill. -- Belle Plain, James River, Va. Sanitary Commission Wagons. -- Distant view of "Swamp Angel Battery," Morris Island, S.C. -- Encampment on the White House grounds. -- The famous RELAY HOUSE.-Massachusetts Troops on guard. -- Crows Nest Battery and lookout, before Petersburg, Va. -- Soldiers' Graves near the General Hospital, City Point, Va. -- Marshall House, Alexandria, the scene of Col. Ellsworth's assassination. -- Round Top Mountain, Gettysburgh. -- View of Ft. Sumpter, from the sand-bar. -- Gen. Heintzleman and Staff, Arlington House, Va. -- Crowd in Washington. Looking up 15th Street during the Review of the Army of the Potomac. -- Double Turretted Monitor Onondaga, on the James River. -- Ruins of Rail Road Bridge at Blackburns Ford, Va. -- And 64 others.

Together, 85 stereoviews, the majority published by E. & H.T. Anthony.

Estate of David O'Reilly, Old Bridge, New Jersey

This lot is located in Cincinnati.